Bibliotheca agilis: survival of the fittest in Libraryland 2012 lib@cam Cambridge
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Bibliotheca agilis: survival of the fittest in Libraryland
2012 lib@cam
Cambridge
12 January 2012
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“Librarians” – An Endangered Species?
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Association of Research Libraries
www.arl.org
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Libraries of the Future
www.futurelibraries.info
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RLUK Strategic Plan
• Redefining the research library model• Collaborating to reduce costs and improve quality• Shaping ethical and effective publishing• Promoting unique and distinctive collections• Modelling the library role in research data
management
http://www.rluk.ac.uk/
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Redefining the research library model
• Physical collections are shrinking• Library as publisher• Manipulation of information resources
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Collaborating to reduce costs and improve quality
• United Kingdom Research Reserve (UKRR)http://www.ukrr.ac.uk/
• Shared cataloguing (yet again!)
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Shaping ethical and effective publishing
• Scholarly communications are changing
• Journal costs spiralling
• Monographs at risk
• But new publishing models emerging
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Promoting unique and distinctive collections
• Collaborative digitisation
• Resource discovery
• Promoting access
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The library’s role in research data management
• Uniquely complex network of metadata• Institutional, national and international initiatives
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So in practical terms...
• Space
• Stuff
• Staff
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The future
• Today’s research library model is obsolescentbut
• The research library of tomorrow can and will
support evolving models of
scholarly communications
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not Doing things differentlyrather
Doing different things
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RLUK www.rluk.ac.uk
UKRR www.ukrr.ac.uk
ARL www.arl.org
LOTF www.futurelibraries.info
Imperial College Library www3.imperial.ac.uk/library